IT blog
Nokia is about to sell Qt Business
26/03/2011
The world leading mobile phone supplier Nokia corporation is going to sell it’s Qt commercial licensing and facility establishment to technology services firm Digia Public Limited Company, the two companies said on Monday.
Bing simply steals search results from Google
15/02/2011
Google and Microsoft were already in online duels against each other, but search engine technologies provoke both to initiate a new battle in this field. If previous arguments were mostly insignificant attempts that could not result in real actions, last post that went public in official Google blog includes open critical facts against Microsoft hedging strategy in search technologies. That publication indicates that Bing simply steals search results from Google.
House.gov will use Drupal
10/02/2011
Open source applications become not only simple but reliable and trustworthy. One of latest achievements in this area is implementation of Drupal CMS to create House.gov, web site for the United States House of Representatives.
Howto run only single Java application instance
08/01/2011
Sometimes in software development you need to run only one application instance. If you want to do this in Java you will have to think about realization, because this feature is not complete in standard Java language library. In the web you can find 2 basic approaches to make it work: port lock and file lock ideas. I've try to create really reusable piece of code :) which can handle cross application lock.
Change the admin url in Drupal to enhance security
28/12/2010
The following tip can be used in multiple scenarios (being anywhere you need custom URL rewriting and want to do this without .htaccess), but I'll illustrate it for two specific purposes.
Adobe flash player Square now available for 64bit Linux
14/12/2010
As you know there was a little problems with Adobe flash player on linux. All linux versions of flash player has very slow perfomanse especially in full screen mode where productivity reduced in 2 or 4 times, also there was only 32 bit version available.
How much should a website cost?
11/08/2010
This is probably one of the most frequent answers web developers get. And the one that actually gives them the most hard time. Answering this question is like answering "How much should a house cost?" – impossible without much additional information. Basically, web design has many unique components that add or subtract from the total website cost.
Never stop doing what you like
06/08/2010
My name is Vladislav and I am the founder of Fresh2L web development company and I would like to share some of my thoughts on how to develop your business.
About eight years ago I first got interested in the internet and made an attempt to set up my own website. I have put a lot of time and effort and finally the site was ready. It was used it to help me learn and try out new technologies and looked really edgy at that time and all of my friends got to like it.
Drupal taxonomy_select_nodes() limits results
12/06/2010
In Drupal function taxonomy_select_nodes() limits results based on "Number of posts on main page" variable.
In API it says "Finds all nodes that match selected taxonomy conditions."
This sounds completly wrong if you consider this function could be called from custom modules to get entries for a custom block for example.
Enum types in Java
10/06/2010
An enum type is a type whose fields consist of a fixed set of constants. Common examples include compass directions (values of NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, and WEST) and the days of the week.
Because they are constants, the names of an enum type's fields are in uppercase letters.